On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > In all cases apart from an explicit "byte string", the word "string" is > always used for the native array-of-characters type delimited by plain > quotation marks, as used for error messages, user prompts, etc., regardless > whether the implementation is an array of 8-bit bytes (as used by Python > 2), or the full Unicode character set (as used by Python 3). So in > practice, provided you know which version of Python is being discussed, > there is never any genuine ambiguity when using the word "string" and no > excuse for confusion.
And frequently, even if you're talking about Py2/Py3 cross code, there's still no ambiguity about the word "string": it means a default-for-the-language string. The locale.setlocale() function expects a string as its second parameter, for instance. (And unfortunately, flatly refuses the other sort, whichever way around that is.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list